NAME

WWW::Shorten::Shorl - Perl interface to shorl.com

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Shorten::Shorl;

  use WWW::Shorten 'Shorl';

  $short_url = makeashorterlink($long_url);
  ($short_url,$password) = makeashorterlink($long_url);

  $long_url  = makealongerlink($short_url);

DESCRIPTION

A Perl interface to the web site shorl.com. Shorl simply maintains a database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier.

The function makeashorterlink will call the Shorl web site passing it your long URL and will return the shorter Shorl version. If used in a list context, then it will return both the Shorl URL and the password.

The function makealongerlink does the reverse. makealongerlink will accept as an argument either the full Shorl URL or just the Shorl identifier.

If anything goes wrong, then either function will return undef.

Note that Shorl, unlike TinyURL and MakeAShorterLink, returns a unique code for every submission.

EXPORT

makeashorterlink, makealongerlink

BUGS, REQUESTS, COMMENTS

Please report any requests, suggestions or bugs via the system at http://rt.cpan.org/, or email <bug-WWW-Shorten@rt.cpan.org>. This makes it much easier for me to track things and thus means your problem is less likely to be neglected.

AUTHOR

Iain Truskett <spoon@cpan.org>

Based on WWW::MakeAShorterLink by Dave Cross <dave@dave.org.uk>

SEE ALSO

WWW::Shorten, perl, http://shorl.com/